RFR: 8273916: Remove 'special' ranking [v2]

Thu Sep 23 11:24:58 UTC 2021

On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 23:32:12 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Coleen Phillimore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Add comment about ThreadSMRDelete_lock
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> So there is more to this than just removing the "special" ranking - you've also changed some locks that are safepoint_never, that used to have ranks above what is now nosafepoint, so that they instead have ranks below nosafepoint - is that right? As long a all relative rankings of locks that can be taken together is maintained, then that is okay - but it is very hard to see that just by looking at the changes.

Thank you @dholmes-ora for the discussions and review!

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5563